Consider a new direction in system administration.

In the news: Red Hat Announces Ansible Lightspeed with IBM watsonx Code Assistant; Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift Announced; NSA Offers Best Practices for OSS in Operational Technology Environments; Civil Infrastructure Platform Adds New Super-Long-Term Linux Kernel; HTTP/2 Protocol Exploited in Largest DDoS Attack Ever; Docker Announces Three New Products for Secure App Delivery; CloudBees Updates Jenkins and Offers New DevSecOps Platform; Linkerd 2.14 Released with Improved Multi-Cluster Support; NIST Releases Draft of Cybersecurity Framework v2.0; CISA and MITRE Announce Open Source Caldera for OT

Domain-driven design addresses many aspects of software development, from the design of entire software landscapes and the relationships between (sub)systems to the design of domain models, patterns, and code.

At first glance, the domain-driven design software architecture approach and the agile process model seem to cover different areas of software development. In fact, they do more than generate synergies; in some cases, they even aim for the same targets.

Domain-Driven transformation can refurbish a legacy system in increments while mitigating risk.

Windows admins can use the Python PyAD library to automate Active Directory configuration and management. Deployment on a Windows server is a snap and paves the way for delegating tedious routine tasks to Python scripts.

Apache ShardingSphere extends databases like MySQL or PostgreSQL, adding a modular abstraction layer to support horizontal sharding and scalability – but not replication or encryption at rest.

Where does your job data go? The answer is fairly straightforward, but I add some color by throwing in a little high-level background about what resource managers are doing and evolve the question to include a discussion of where data "should" or "could" go.

If the IT staff is having trouble keeping up with the demand for custom applications, end users can pitch in with low-code programming tools like Microsoft Power Apps.

Knative transfers serverless workloads to Kubernetes and provides all the container components you need to build serverless applications and PaaS and FaaS services.